Chapter 6 Network Reconnaissance

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Start Gathering Information

Start automating the network! Go to TFS. Create a new “Work Item” called campus_ios_facts. Move it to “Active”. Create a new branch called campus_ios_facts. Perform a git pull to refresh the local repository. Change to the ios_facts branch just created using git checkout. * Warning * Embedding passwords in plain text is never a good idea and is always a security concern. The following practice is not a recommended practice or best practice and there are ways, specifically vaulting, to protect system account passwords that provide access to the network device CLI. For the sake of educating and being able to proceed without having to fully understand and make vaulting work use this method for now. Vaulting also prompts for a password at run time which may interfere with full automation.